Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
10:30 am
Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source
We certainly did. I was proud to be a member of the justice committee which recommended the approach we adopted in the 2017 Act. I pay tribute to the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, who drove the legislation, rightly, from an explicitly feminist perspective, with the focus on protecting women who were being exploited.
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